Cuban national sought in connection to a nearly $3 million healthcare fraud was caught after two years on the run

Ubert Guillermo Rodriguez of Cuba was arrested Thursday on
suspicion of millions of dollars' worth of healthcare fraud after
landing in Miami, according to a statement from the FBI.

Rodriguez had been wanted by US authorities since 2013,
when his company, G.R. Services Equipment and Supplies
Inc., filed for reimbursements on $2,579,695 worth of
equipment and procedures that were "not prescribed by
doctors and not provided to beneficiaries," the FBI
said.

Federal law enforcement had seized $243,339 from
G.R. Services, but Rodriguez himself remained out of their reach
in Cuba, the FBI said.

The FBI indictment states that "G.R. Services sought
thousands of dollars in reimbursement for wound therapy
electrical pumps and sterile collagen dressings purportedly
provided in 2013 to Medicare beneficiaries who had died in
2010."

This case is part of a Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which
broke the record for the largest medicare-fraud bust in June, in
which 73 other Miami practitioners were also charged, the FBI
said.

"Health care fraud is a crime that hurts all of us, and
each dollar taken from programs that help the sick and the
suffering is one dollar too many," FBI Director James Comey said of the June bust.

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged over 2,300
defendants for more than $7 billion in suspected fraudulent
charges since its establishment in 2007, the FBI said.